Brütal Legend is an action-adventure that marries visceral action combat with open-world freedom. Set in a universe somewhere between Lord of the Rings and Spinal Tap, it’s a fresh take on the action/driving genre, which in this case is full of imitation cover bands, demons intent on enslaving humanity and Heavy metal tunes.

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"A Double Fine Game 'Brütal Legend is truly a gift to metal and game fans alike and my new, best 3D game ever.' -Play Magazine"

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Brütal Legend is an action-adventure that marries visceral action combat with open-world freedom. Set in a universe somewhere between Lord of the Rings and Spinal Tap, it’s a fresh take on the action/driving genre, which in this case is full of imitation cover bands, demons intent on enslaving humanity and Heavy metal tunes. Featuring the talents of comedian, actor and musician, Jack Black as super roadie Eddie Riggs, as well as cameos by some of the biggest names in metal music it's a wild ride in the belly of the beast that is not to be missed by gamers and Metalheads alike.

Included as a free bonus in the PC version of Brütal Legend are both the Hammer of Infinite Fate and Tears of the Hextadon multiplayer map packs.

Story

The vivid and wildly creative world of Brütal Legend is brought to life through a spate of chrome, leather, rocker babes, epic music, fire-breathing/stud-wearing beasts, mountains made of guitar amps, and more. Follow Eddie as he embarks on a tour of epic destruction with an axe, a guitar, and his minions as he commands the power of rock in epic band battles. It’s lighter-flicking awesomeness that will melt your face clean off.

Combat

Brütal Legend’s combat is a combination of classic action slasher and real time strategy mechanics. Melee and ranged combat come from your double-sided broadaxe and demon-slaying, pyrotechnic-creating guitar. Add that 1-2 punch to a guitar solo mechanic that can summon objects, buff your teammates, or cripple your opponents, and you have a deep, gratifying core gameplay combat loop that is fun for the hardcore and accessible for the casual. On top of that, players will journey from Roadie to Rock God by commanding legions of metalheads into Brütal Victory and sending troops charging into battle.

A Streaming Open World

Brütal Legend gives you the freedom to walk, drive, or fly anywhere in a fully streaming open world whose art style is inspired by some of the most iconic and hilariously rad metal album covers ever created. Every vista in the beautiful universe of Brütal Legend looks like it was pulled from a Frank Frazetta painting.

Packed With Cameos and Voice Talent

Brütal Legend is full of cameos from gods of metal like Lemmy Kilmister, Rob Halford, Lita Ford, and many, many others. It has a MASSIVE metal soundtrack from every era of metal music: 1970’s classic metal to 1980’s hair metal to the scarier cousins of 1990’s metal. And of course, Jack Black pays the ultimate homage to metal as Eddie the Roadie, continuing the theme from the work of his band, Tenacious D and his previous films like School of Rock and High Fidelity.

Multiplayer Mayhem

4v4 "skirmish" multiplayer marries action combat with a strategic unit-control mechanic. As the leader of one of the factions in the game, the player will direct his armies in a Battle of the Bands where the trophy is survival. Brütal Legend’s multiplayer is online-enabled, so you can conquer your friends online (broadband connection required for online play).

Music

The music in Brütal Legend is truly massive. Made up of 108 of the most rocking tracks from 75 different bands representing every sub-genre of metal, it is something to experience in and of itself.

Beatings, lawn, Heavy Metal and strategy? Double Fine united all in Brutal Legend.A strange, hybrid of hack’n’slash action, real-time strategy and open-world racing/exploring.The laughs leaving you with a story that is cool and bizarre but lacking in the bite of the opening scenes.

Graphically the game looks a bit better than the console versions due to the increased draw distances and a few other small improvements, but it is not visually impressive. I like the art style. Heads are chopped off, blood is splattered, and faces melted, but it's all in good fun. It looks OK for a game that came out in 2009, but it's 2014 now, so I think most people will expect more.

Brutal Legend follows a metal freak, which takes on an appropriately fantasy world. The first time you take control of Eddie, one might feel as if you are playing a rather standard action game, because mashes from simple combos is your way to bloody slaughter groups of enemies. The story takes plenty of twists and turns along the way and deals with some interesting themes of quiet heroism and personal sacrifice. There is a great open world where you die if you touch water and the only thing to do outside of the storyline is cloned minigames offers me the scope to go ♥♥♥♥ing nuts that it thinks it does. Collectors and obsessive compulsives will find plenty to do in Brutal Legend. There are many side quests (could be more variety) waiting to be accepted, appear helpful on the map, so you do not have to search around.

Brütal Legend looks wonderful, and it feels wonderful, but it isn’t quite wonderful, not really.The game combine humor, music, clever gameplay and the voice is a great work. You haven't played a game like this before and won't want to miss it. Its not perfect but unique!

Score: 81 / 100gamestar.de

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One of those games that are smarter than they look.Inside there is a ton of references, cool gameplaymoments, and good old METAL! Certainly give it a shoot,for if you know who's the Great Ozzy is, or what is "Motorhead"you will have a good time. And it's also one of the best"in-style" games I've ever seen. Just look at the menu!!!

What do you do when you are on the game’s store page? You buy it, install it and play it. Once you initiate the third process, you won’t need convincing on keeping on doing it. The game is entertaining, detailed even where you don’t expect it, the npc’s are loveable, the open world big enough to lose yourself in it. What was a surprise that made me skeptic at first but turned out to be another enjoyable feature was the “casual” RTS, where from the protagonists third person that turns into a flying demon you command your various troops to take out towers and ultimately, the stage, by implementing your tactics. I wasn’t a fan of metal when I started playing this game, but because of it, I have all the metal songs from this game in my playlist.

You are Eddie Riggs, the best roadie in the world, which means you are the one responsible for the stage glamour, but no one will know it. As things get out of control, you find your way into the past, into the age of metal, where people are used against their will by a tyrant which servers Doviculus, the demon responsible for the taint that corrupts all what metal stands for. Since Eddie is good at making things work and gives people purpose, a revolution is started. There will be many great characters that you’ll meet along the way, many of which are based on real life metal stars. There is always a romantic sub plot where you might find some clichés, but they are the best kind. Since the story takes place in an open world, you can expect a lot of variation in locations and types of allies and enemies.

There are a lot of sidequests and neither are the fetch types, more like ambushing, hunting, racing, keeping the bikers away while a headbanger charms a girl, shooting from a ramped car, placing markers for the guy with no aim to shoot rockets, that sort of stuff. Once I had to clear a cave so that a family of bats could go back in, which earned me kisses and an apology from a bat for ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on my head. There are solos to find, serpents to free and legends to learn. It’s the kind of open world that never fills empty. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=382331029In the RTS missions, you’ll use your solos and your cunning, for doing things like melting your enemies faces and send the invisible forces to attack the stage while the shooters and the pyromans defend your stage. The Deuce(your car) is fun to drive, but the controls may prove to be difficult at first, which makes it even more fun. You can raise relics, which include Motorfoges, where you will upgrade your attack, the Deuce, change outfits, enhance your weapons and buy stones to place on a mountain. If you’re a fan of the RTS system in the game, you can expect a good time in the multiplayer.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=382329151I found many of my favorite gaming moments here. While people find some faults in this game, everyone finds the way to play this game and others don’t recognize those faults at all. The end was emotional satisfying, sneaking away, yet finding yourself surrounded by friends that simply ask you to never forget them at which point you’d likely say that you won’t, then driving into the sunset while your girlfriend watches smiling and dropping a tear. You can free roam afterwards to see what more this game has to offer. I’m not done with it and I don’t want to, not until I hear of a sequel at least. In the end, I find Brütal Legend to do everything right.

This game is awesome. And so metal. Sooooo metal. The mix of free-roam, tactical skirmishes, strategic battles, hack&slash, and music works amazingly well. A huge surprise was that the characters were actually interesting and the story well worth playing through, unlike most games of this type (more like the games it draws from, because there are no other games like this).

This gets a recommandation without hesitation from me. My only regret is how long it took me to start playing it.

Heavy metal, women, more heavy metal, gore, battles, booze. your guitar shoots electricity and can summon a giant burning zepelin to crush them demons, summon your all migthy beast (car or animal) and ride them, f**king enemies up, more heavy metal, wield an axe that you may upgrade (with the rest of the stuff) to be a holy soul eating fu**, more heavy metal, swearing, teach the future chick who will kill you to french kiss, did i mention heavy metal?

PROS:

-SOUNDTRACK: Great soundtrack(the heavy metal songs and the overworld ones, very relaxing), actually a lot of ppl listens to heavy metal because of this game( like me)

-VOICE ACTING: Fu**ing great! It has JB( Jack black, Leader of the band Tenacious D with Kyle, actor in films like King Kong 2005 , The Pick of Destiny and voice actor of Kung Fu Panda, as Po) as Eddie Riggs, Kyle Gas( partner of Jack black) as the Cannoner and the random bat dad guy, Ozzy Osbrown( or something) as the keeper of secrets, Lemmy Kilmister as Kill Master, etc...

-GAMEPLAY: Good hack-n-slash game with an axe to hack and a guitar to shoot electricity because that rocks! You may summon your car (druidplower) and ♥♥♥♥ your enemies. The main missions are good, but a good propotion of them is to escort the Tour bus with your car and the battle Stages, that i will talk later. The side missions are also good, but some repetitive. There are the Ambush, Race, Hunting record and Cannon defence + the unique ones, but of there are only one each.

-COLLECTIBLES: Yes, there are dragons to free, with the gods of metal reward you with tribute and for every 10 dragons a upgrade (Health, regen, etc), Legends, to look the past and how was everything created, artwork, the Metal Songs, that add more songs to your soundtrack. and fairies, that give you tribute if you catch them.

-METAL FORGE: It is were you go and purchase upgrades for your car, axe and guitar + paintjobs(for the druidplower or your jacket), purchase cool moves and get some statues + Ozzy is in there...yes...

-STORY: The story is amazing, simple, but amazing, with a very good twist at the end( after the secondlast battle), tho it leaves you wanting a Brütal Legend 2( tho i doubt there will be).It is a 10-15 hour game, at least for me.

DLC( included in the game and only in the PC version): Adds some skins for Eddie Riggs, your car, axe, guitar, and statues+ 1 new weapon and a new ram for your car+ an eye that points you in the direction of a collectible, helps a lot.

CONS:-GAMEPLAY: There's another part of the gameplay, it is the RTS one. In the Stages( battles) you can create units by getting fans from merchandise booths in fan gysers, and basicly your objective is to destroy the enemy Stage. It feels like it is out of place fot this type of game, but it is fun non-the less, gets repititive tho.

-MULTIPLAYER is dead, tho there are those 2 random persons from the forum who decided to do some achivements, the multiplayer is dead, tho it doesn't suprise me, as it is only the RTS part of the game, and as i said, it is out of place for this type of game and has a rly poor ranking that it also feels out of place. Only good thing is that it let's you try the other 2 factions (Tainted coil, my favourite, and the other one).

-BUGS: Yes, there are bugs, not a lot of them, but some, some haves you stuck between invisible walls.

-DIFFICULTY: It is easy even on Brütal( Tho the final Stage battle took me 3 tries, and with them i found the trick to beat it). Ofc you will need to get upgrades for your axe, guitar( tho for the final hours of gameplay you should have it upgraded to the max upgrade) and the Dragons for health upgrades and whatnot( if you don't get those ofc it will be hard).

I wish I would've played this sooner! I started it a long time ago, but it got lost in the backlog of steam sales and humble bundles, now the multiplayer portion seems pretty much dead. it is a shame too, because it is really fun. The campaign really grew on me too. It was an action game with a unique storyline and Brutal mode lived up to the name in my opinion. Money well spent.

Okay , so let me start with this , I bought this game just now but I passed it long time ago and I just had to have it in my steam library !

I am going to do some good old pros and cons and I hope I will help you :)

Pros : + HEAVY METAL ! (If you like heavy metal as I do ) +Jack Black ( If you find him funny )+Fantasy open world with lot of cool and heavy stuff to explore ! +Ozzy , Lemmy , Lita and moreee !! +Good multiplayer (but unpopular anymore :( )+Great artwork+Hard game !!+Only for real man ! +Nice gameplay system (Some maybe find this wrong but I really like it ! )+Current sale ! It's only 3,74e so it's pretty cool ! catch it while you can !+HEAVY METAL ! (C'mon ! If you are a man you must like HEAVY METAL ! )

Cons : -Heavy metal ( If you don't like heavy metal ....you little ♥♥♥♥♥ ! )-Jack Black ( If you don't find him funny ) -Bugs ( you have to deal with those , it's not a amazing port :/ )-Maybe to hard sometimes

OVERALL : 9,4/10

Apsolutly amazing and stunning game ! Every music fan should have it and every fantasy gamer ! This is apsolutly a MUST BUY GAME !!

Fan of metal music? Rock music? BOTH? Well you're in luck! This game combines these genres, in their widest and most well-selected form, with a fascinating new world to explore.. a world filled with this music and its basic elements!This game is worth playing for the music alone, but the storyline, setting, and gameplay are also fantastic. I'm not going to sit here and tell you why, it's an experience.. so go experience it for yourself!

Features characters based on and voiced by such musicians as Jack Black & Kyle Gass (Tenacious D), Lemmy Kilmister (Motörhead), Ozzy Osbourne (who doesn't know him?), and many more!

Just Finished this game last night, and all I could say was Hmm that was Pretty Good!

Brutal Legends is a Humorous Adventure Action game with the theme of Metal, I Myself is a Huge fan of Metal and the Soundtrack is Friggin Awesome. Lotsa Licensed Music which are really good plus Eddie Riggs Voiced by Jack black and he was pretty damn good at it, Remy Kilmister, Ozzy Osbourne and Lita Ford were awesome although Lita Ford's character did not offer much but overall was pretty good.

The Intro for this game was so Hype! They Introduced Eddie Riggs and his Job as a Roadie and the really Bad music at this time of age wanting to go back to the past, then one of the band members does a dumb stunt and Eddie Riggs had to save him but perished. His blood reached his belt and summoned a metal demon which brought him to another world then with the Help of "Children of the Grave" by Black Sabbath's Intro the Hype of the game was at maximum level and what showed afterwards was not a let down as well.

The Gameplay was pretty suprising really, it was like an RTS Action game but it was really damn fun and the Enemies were not so easy it would be a breeze, the whole game was balanced out making sure you're not so overpowered it's easy so the game offered some challenge as well or at least that's what I got from the maximum Difficulty.

The Story was pretty interesting, making a revoloution to go against the emperor of demons and taking them down after Eddie Riggs was shown. The Story was interesting enough to keep playing and the Characters even though they were fictional they were very believable because they felt like they are similiar personalities from normal metalheads which easily made you understand them even the headbangers were believable despite their look xD

Story 7/10Sound 10/10Gameplay 8/10 Overall 8/10

An Awesome game to sit your ♥♥♥ if you're a Metal fan, this game made me want a sequel but sadly the 2nd game was cancelled, oh well. I Recommend this game even if you're not really that into metal I'm sure it will help you love metal.

Brütal Legend is not only very funny and has an amazing soundtrack, it also has one of the best facial animations I've seen.The voice acting is also top notch – No surprise there, considering that the voice actors include Jack Black and several Metal Legends.Sadly, the gameplay is only mediocre. Even the strategy part, while unique 'cause of its third person controls, is very tedious.But even if you are only slightly interested in Metal, you should try this game out. It is simply fun.

There are a lot of things in this game you can either like, or hate. It's a decent game. Combining real-time strategy with action-adventure, Brütal Legend tells a story about the main character Eddie Riggs who helps Lars, Lita and Ophelia create an army to fight against the evil antagonist, in a heavy metal inspired world. The gameplay mechanics itself can be confusing, and controls aren't really comfortable. You can travel in an open world and do side missions, or continue the main story, which unfortunately only lasts about six hours. While doing the main story, you get to do these 'stage battles', that's where the real-time strategy comes into play.

The game is supported by some absolutely awesome heavy metal music. Featuring over 100 great songs from popular artists like Motörhead, Megadeth, Judas Priest, Ozzy Osbourne, and many more, as well as a lot of excellent less known bands. Some voices have been done by musicians including Lemmy Kilmister, Rob Halford, Ozzy Osbourne and more. Not only the music but also the visuals are quite appealing, with lots of different themed areas and a unique graphical style. The story is fun, there's some good humour and the characters are very interesting. Truly a joy to play for metal fans, and still worth trying if you're not.

Gameplay however is lacking things. The controls aren't optimal and can be very confusing, even though the game tries its best to explain them. The hack-and-slash parts are pretty good, but the real-time strategy parts can be a bit overwhelming seeing as how much you have to handle at a time. The story is really short, clocking at about only six hours. There's a decent amount of side stuff to do, and dispite the flaws it's still fun to play.

If you like heavy metal music, dark themes, and like the idea of real-time strategy combined with action-adventure and hack-and-slash, then this game might be just for you. The game might not be great in terms of gameplay mechanics, but the concept is still awesome; and so is the music!